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Author : Jenni Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904922124
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Donors and Childhood Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Jenni Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marito H. Garcia
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821368877
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge written by Marito H. Garcia and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-18 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early childhood, from birth through school entry, was largely invisible worldwide as a policy concern for much of the twentieth century. Children, in the eyes of most countries, were 'appendages' of their parents or simply embedded in the larger family structure. The child did not emerge as a separate social entity until school age (typically six or seven). 'Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa' focuses on the 130 million children south of the Sahel in this 0-6 age group. This book, the first of its kind, presents a balanced collection of articles written by African and non-African authors ranging from field practitioners to academicians and from members of government organizations to those of nongovernmental and local organizations. 'Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge' compiles the latest data and viewpoints on the state of Sub-Saharan Africa's children. Topics covered include the rationale for investing in young children, policy trends in early childhood development (ECD), historical perspectives of ECD in Sub-Saharan Africa including indigenous approaches, new threats from HIV/AIDS, and the importance of fathers in children's lives. The book also addresses policy development and ECD implementation issues; presents the ECD programming experience in several countries, highlighting best practices and challenges; and evaluates the impact of ECD programs in a number of countries.
Author : K. Subbarao
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821358573
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (585 download)
Download or read book Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans written by K. Subbarao and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the many risks and vulnerability faced by orphans and the ameliorating role played by the actions of governments and donors.
Author : Gustave Nébié
Publisher : Ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 9783838211763
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Child Poverty and Social Protection in Central and Western Africa written by Gustave Nébié and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Livingstone declaration, and the UN Social Protection Floor, this book deals jointly with multidimensional child poverty and social protection in Central and Western Africa. It focuses both on extent and types of social protection coverage and assesses various child poverty trends in the region. More importantly, it looks at social protection to prevent and address the consequences of child poverty. Child poverty is distinct, conceptually, and different, quantitatively, from adult poverty. It requires its own independent measurement--otherwise half of the population in developing countries may be unaccounted for when assessing poverty reduction. This book posits that child poverty should be measured based on constitutive rights of poverty, using a multidimensional approach. The argument is supported by chapters actually applying and expanding this approach. In addition, the case is made that the underlying drivers of child poverty are inequality, lack of access to basic social services, and the presence of families without any type of social protection. As a result, the case for social protection in contributing to reduce and eliminate child protection and its consequences is made. Poverty reduction has been high on the international agenda since the start of the millennium. First as part of the MDGs and now included in the SDGs. However, in spite of a decline in the incidence of child poverty, the number of poor children is harder to reduce due to population dynamics. As a result, concomitant problems such as the increasing number of child brides, unregulated/dangerous migration, unabated child trafficking, etc. remain intractable. Understanding the root causes of child poverty and its characteristics in Central and Western Africa is fundamental to designing innovative ways to address it. It is also important to map the interventions, describe the practices, appreciate the challenges, recognize the limitations, and highlight the contributions of social protection and its role in dealing with child poverty. No practical policy recommendations can be devised without this knowledge.
Author : Presidential Mission on Children Orphaned by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Report on the Presidential Mission on Children Orphaned by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Presidential Mission on Children Orphaned by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. E. Doek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Child Poverty written by J. E. Doek and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the linkages between child rights, child wellbeing and child poverty, the dimension and state of child poverty and policy options to tacking it. Reveals that high rates of economic growth and reductions in income poverty do not translate in improvements of the wellbeing of children.
Author : David Lawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788530460
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)
Download or read book What Works for Africa's Poorest Children written by David Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1920-03-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there has been substantial progress in reducing global poverty in recent years, hundreds of millions of vulnerable children remain trapped in extreme poverty. This is especially the case on the African continent, where children account for the majority and growing proportion of the population. Despite rapid economic growth in several African countries, as well as significant achievements in both development and humanitarian interventions, a staggering number of African children remain vulnerable to extreme levels of deprivation. Existing challenges notwithstanding, a number of social policies and programmes proved successful in alleviating the burden of child poverty and deprivation. In addition to being vitally important in promoting and protecting children's rights, these social policies and programmes embody the international community's commitment to achieve the Social Development Goals (SDGs) and ensuring no one is left behind. What Works for Africa's Poorest Children? From Measurement to Action identifies the social policies and programmes that are most effective in supporting Africa's poorest and most vulnerable children, and examines the key features underpinning their documented success. It provides cutting edge examples on how we can identify child poverty and deprivation, analyses innovative ultra-poor child sensitive programmes, and provides new public financing and governance rights suggestions for child poverty elimination.
Author : Marito Garcia
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821388975
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The Cash Dividend written by Marito Garcia and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cash Dividend: The Rise of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa assimilates results of a thorough review of the recent use of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from sources including program documentation, policy papers, peer-reviewed publications, and interviews, it paints a picture of the evolution and current state of cash transfers, which include unconditional and conditional cash transfers and emergency- and development-focused transfers. It presents analysis from data collected and describes broad trends in design features and implementation, including objectives, targeting, benefits, payment mechanisms, conditions, monitoring, evaluation, institutional location, program costs, and more. It also addresses political economy issues relevant to cash transfer programs, discusses the challenges to implementing cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, and highlights lessons learned from existing African cash transfer programs. The comprehensive nature of the review, and its thorough analysis of previously unassimilated data, fills a gap in knowledge related to cash transfer programs in the region. The book is expected to benefit the donor community and domestic policymakers involved in cash transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa, guiding both program design and future research. It will help shift the debate on cash transfers in Africa from whether they are possible to how they can best be implemented.
Author : Matthew Cummins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book COVID-19 written by Matthew Cummins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report investigates how COVID-19 and other shocks have impacted child well-being across the region and the potential role of cash transfers and external resources to help children and economies. Drawing on more than 35 databases and a variety of modelling exercises, it presents the first-ever continental snapshot of child well-being at the start of 2020, which includes estimates of monetary and multi-dimensional poverty for 46 countries.It offers fresh perspectives on the severity of the economic and poverty situation, showing that the growth shock removed 15 years of income progress and caused the biggest increase in extreme poverty ever recorded in the region. Among children, poverty rates have spiked by 10%, on average, with 26 million additional children pushed below national poverty lines compared to the start of the year. 280 million - or more than half of the region's 550 million children - are now likely impacted by monetary poverty. It also highlights the devastating consequences of the viral, economic, climate and conflict shocks on human capital. Learning completely stopped for around 350 million children for at least some period in 2020, which has already reduced their lifelong earning potential. Millions of students will never return to the classroom. At the same time, more than half of children are currently affected by some level of food insecurity, with close to one in ten facing a crisis situation. Other emerging signals point to health dangers, like diarrhea and malaria, rising levels of all forms of violence, and upticks in child pregnancies and brides, among others.To protect children, the report makes the case for expanding cash transfer programs. In addition to mitigating and even preventing most of the current challenges facing children, delivering a cash equivalent to 20% of the average monthly income of a country to all children under five for 12 months could catapult economic growth by around 5%, on average. The report further argues that cash transfer programs can be readily financed by the international financial institutions. More than six months into the crisis, the IMF and World Bank had only accessed around 12% of their approved global funding capacity of $1.2 trillion, demonstrating vast potential to support countries - and children - in need. Donor governments could also help by making progress toward their commitments to SDG 17.2 to provide 0.7% of their gross national income in development aid. The report additionally floats more contentious financing ideas, including issuing long-term bonds to fund a human capital development facility, selling IMF gold reserves and taxing international financial transactions.
Author : Jones, Nicola A.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847424473
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Child poverty, evidence and policy written by Jones, Nicola A. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is about the opportunities and challenges involved in mainstreaming knowledge about children in international development policy and practice. It focuses on the ideas, networks and institutions that shape the development of evidence about child poverty and wellbeing, and the use of such evidence in development policy debates. It also pays particular attention to the importance of power relations in influencing the extent to which children's voices are heard and acted upon by international development actors. The book weaves together theory, mixed method approaches and case studies spanning a number of policy sectors and diverse developing country contexts in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It therefore provides a useful introduction for students and development professionals who are new to debates on children, knowledge and development, whilst at the same time offering scholars in the field new methodological and empirical insights.
Author : Theophilus Kofi Gokah
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443807621
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Children on the Boundaries of Time and Space in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Theophilus Kofi Gokah and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children on the Boundaries of Time and Space in sub-Saharan Africa has come at the time when children’s well-being is on the agendas of governments, policy makers, schools and community organisations. It provides an in-depth analysis of the relation between official children’s rights and well-being policies and their implementation refracted through African as well as Western lenses. The content of the book is a departure from conventional stereotype approach to children’s well-being analysis in sub-Saharan Africa. In addressing issues around children’s rights and well-being, the book offers a reflection on the conflict between adult society and government welfare policies. The book also draws on existing knowledge about national and international efforts to change adult attitudes towards children. Analysis in the book demonstrates that there are both structural and operational problems in children’s rights and policies governing their well-being in sub-Saharan Africa. This sort of work has been neglected since the last few decades and has created a gulf between government policy rhetoric and practice. Children on the Boundaries of Time and Space in sub-Saharan Africa bridges that gap and reasserts the need for effective policy, material changes in resources and cultural change valuable to enhance children’s ability to stay healthy, grow and learn to become responsible citizens.
Author : David Len Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Poverty, AIDS, Orphanhood, Gender, and Child Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa written by David Len Mather and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is growing concern that the HIV/AIDS epidemic may reduce long-term human capital development through reductions in child schooling in SSA, thus severely limiting the longterm ability of orphans and their extended families to escape poverty. In response, some have called for targeted schooling subsidies for orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, on the assumption that such children are under-enrolled. This paper provides an overview of the data sources used by existing empirical studies that test for orphan schooling deficits and the methodological challenges that they face. It then reviews the empirical evidence on the effects of orphan status or adult mortality on child schooling, as well as the prevalence of orphans in SSA and their living arrangements."--Page iv.
Author : David Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367502799
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Gender, Poverty and Access to Justice written by David Lawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to justice is a fundamental right guaranteed under a wide body of international, regional and domestic laws. This book brings together contributors to explore and analyze the issue of gendered access to justice, poverty and disempowerment across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Author : Minujin, Alberto
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447312767
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Global Child Poverty and Well-Being written by Minujin, Alberto and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child poverty is a central and present part of global life, with hundreds of millions of children around the world enduring tremendous suffering and deprivation of their most basic needs. Despite its long history, research on poverty and development has only relatively recently examined the issue of child poverty as a distinct topic of concern. This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on international child poverty. With a preface from Sir Richard Jolly, Former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, it examines how child poverty and well-being are now conceptualized, defined and measured, and presents regional and national level portraits of child poverty around the world, in rich, middle income and poor countries. The book's ultimate objective is to promote and influence policy, action and the research agenda to address one of the world's great ongoing tragedies: child poverty, marginalization and inequality.
Author : David T. Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Poverty, AIDS, Orphanhood, Gender, and Child Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa written by David T. Mather and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Ellis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848446012
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)
Download or read book Social Protection in Africa written by Frank Ellis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book makes accessible to a broad audience the ideas, principles and practicalities of establishing effective social protection in Africa. It focuses on the major shift in strategy for tackling hunger and vulnerability, from emergency responses mainly in the form of food transfers to predictable cash transfers to the chronically poorest social groups. The first part of the book comprises nine theme chapters, covering vulnerability, targeting, delivery, coordination, cost-effectiveness, market impacts, and asset effects, while the second part consists of fifteen social protection case studies. The continuous interplay between these two parts makes for a unique contribution to the contemporary literature on social protection. The book takes a positive and forward looking view regarding the feasibility of achieving successful social transfers to the poorest in Africa; nevertheless, a critical stance is taken where appropriate, and unresolved strategic issues regarding the targeting, coverage and scale of social transfers are highlighted. Social Protection in Africa is an essential read for personnel, advisors and consultants working for aid donors, United Nations agencies, NGOs and governments on social transfer programmes in sub-Saharan African countries. In addition, the book represents a valuable resource for training courses on social protection, and will be vital reading for Masters level students and researchers studying emergency relief, social protection, vulnerability and poverty reduction in low-income countries.
Author : Susanna W. Grannis
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745331546
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Hope Amidst Despair written by Susanna W. Grannis and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the16 million children to have been orphaned by AIDS worldwide, almost 15 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. Hope Amidst Despair focuses on these children and those who are made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Of the millions affected, many live in deep poverty, experience little schooling, have unmet health and psychological issues, and bear the burden of stigma. Their plight is often ignored and, as a result, they lead lives of isolation and exclusion that threaten their futures. The book gives voice to HIV/AIDS orphans, allowing them to tell their stories and explain the challenges they face. Susanna Grannis, founder of CHABHA (Children Affected by HIV/AIDS), shows through first-hand experience and research how young community leaders can, with help, effectively promote children's wellbeing and independence. Readers learn of the complexities and possibilities involved in positive development through the analysis of data on children from five different focus countries of sub-Saharan Africa. This will be an essential title for HIV/AIDS campaigners, students of development studies, policy makers, donors, and anyone concerned about the welfare of children in developing countries.
